Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] that this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , this need not be too serious an objection , and the fact that native speakers seem to think that this transcription fits better with their feelings about the language is a good argument in its favour .
2 However , recent studies in comprehensive schools have shown that this picture is changing , and that anorexia nervosa is beginning to lose its class basis .
3 Since Lenin , Marxists have accepted that this consciousness only arises if it is ‘ injected ’ into workers ' movements by an outside agency , a revolutionary party or intelligentsia .
4 In particular , structuralist Marxists have argued that this approach is historically limited and misunderstands the contradictory role which military expenditure performs for capitalist economies .
5 As a sort of bridge person I was quite interested to find out how different the works , the , the , the Permanent Way office does the structural things and er obviously all the clients have feared that this resources would be thrown perhaps .
6 He went on : ‘ Companies have warned that this trend , if it continues , may result in revised production schedules .
7 Investigators had concluded that this suitcase had reached Frankfurt on an Air Malta flight which left Malta earlier that day .
8 Yet both parties had considerably advanced public expenditure , particularly on social policies , to the point where some economists had argued that this kind of expenditure had become an inflationary force , limiting the scope for new wealth-creating private investment .
9 The report calls for intensified research and monitoring of threatened species , whilst the RSPB 's head of international affairs has urged that this take place immediately in order that species be saved .
10 THE Darlington Show lost £11,000 last year , but organisers have promised that this year 's event will take place .
11 Field experiments have proved that this startle display does indeed deter attacks from small birds .
12 Some breeds such as Cocker Spaniels will bark repeatedly , and studies have revealed that this behaviour is far more common in dogs than in their ancestor , the grey wolf .
13 When the faeces are finally expelled , many studies have shown that this waste matter has a higher calorie content than that excreted by people following a normal Western diet containing refined carbohydrates .
14 Finally , while Chomsky assumed that without a priori knowledge , a distributional analysis of a naturally occurring language sample would inevitably fail to identify correspondences between words and their respective lexical roles , more recent studies have suggested that this view may have been unduly pessimistic ( Maratsos 1983 ) .
15 Obviously Club managements try to ensure that this work is carried out with the minimum of inconvenience to guests .
16 Where staffing allows , many schools/colleges try to ensure that this year contains a large element of new material , rather than a stale repetition of past experience .
17 Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease .
18 On the basis of its much smaller jaws and teeth and enlarged cranial cavity , scientists have assumed that this being was the tool-maker .
19 Rival pollsters have argued that this finding should be handled with some caution .
20 Recently , British Ministers have suggested that this target can be reached through relatively minor measures such as the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and increases in petrol duty .
21 But this can not be the whole story , for David Rhodes and others have discovered that this communication can even take place from tree to tree , where there is no root or other physical contact .
22 In any case , others have doubted that this type of thinking would make worthwhile savings and have countered that ‘ … we should allocate resources according to the probability that a patient will benefit rather than his or her age ’ , and that ‘ physiology not age should determine care ’ .
23 But some commentators have insisted that this sort of analogy misunderstands what Aquinas is saying .
24 The courts have found that this requirement was satisfied by a building society , a person indemnified by the Automobile Association , an insurance company and a county police authority .
25 How far Marx and Engels were wedded to the idea is not clear and Engels did note that this sequence did not apply to the New World .
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